End-gate for wagons



. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`JESSE S. HWEY, OFLEXINGTON, MICHIGAN.

END-GATE FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,914, dated February 24, 1880.

Application filed October 1, 1879. w

t To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEssE S. HowEY, of Lexington, in the county of Sanilac and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved End-Gate for Wagon-Bodies, of which the following is a specifica-tion.

Fig. is a vertical section of the end-gate and spending parts.V l

fred, taken on line y y, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- Referring to the drawings, A A are the sides of the wagon-body. B is the bottom, and da are the guides attached to the inside of each of the sides AA, between which the ends of end' gate `or boardO are placed.

In the ends b of sidesA` A', near the top edge, are made horizontal slots cc. The outsides of said slots are protected byinetal faceplates d d', screwed to sides A A around the slots c c.

On face-plate d, around the edge of the slot c', is a curved lug, e, within which the nut fof the coupling-rod `D is passed, when it is screwed up against the`face-plate d.

0n face-plate 1,'above and below slot c, are straight vlugs g g, at right angles to slot c. Behind these lugs g the head h of rod D is passed when the rodD is placed in the slots.

On cleatsi of the end-gate are fastened horizontallugs 7' j in such a position as to be immediately under the rod D when it is placed in the slots c c', as in the drawings.

Fig. 2 is an end view The operation of the invention is as follows: The tail-board C is placed between guides c a.. Then the nutf is either taken ofi' therod D or unscrewed sufficiently to allow ample end play to the rod after itis placed in the slots. The rod D is then placed in slots cc', with the head h sufficiently far in the direction of letter E to clear lugs g g. The rod Dis now pushed v back in the slots c c as far as it will go, and' drawn endwise away from letter E untilhead h is behind lugs g g, at which time said rod is Aover the lugs j, as in Fig.4 5. The nutf is now screwed up against face-plate d', within the curved lug e. When this is done the two sides A A' are securely coupled together, and

the end-gate is prevented from slipping by` the lugs j j bearing against the under side oi' rod Du To remove the rod the above-described operation is reversed.

This invention greatly facilitates the adjust` ment and removal of the end-gate, as the rod D is much more easily removed from the slots c c than drawn out lengthwise in the usual manner, and the lugs g hold the `head l1. securely against turning when the nutf is heilig unscrewed.

Having thus describedmy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let JEssE'sMiTH HowEY.

Witnesses A. R. SCHELL, W. T. LEE.. 

